February 23, 2012

The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Reader

The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Reader This volume deals with two momentous and interrelated events in American history. The American Civil War is the country's largest and most significant war, as northern...

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Civil Wars

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Bristol and the Civil War

Bristol and the Civil War In the seventeenth century Bristol was the second city of England. It was the main west coast port an internationally important entrepot and trading centre. This study argues that when the Royalists captured Bristol in July 1643 they gained not only the city but also the materials and facilities that literally allowed them to remain in the war.

History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641 by Edward Earl of Clarendon

A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861 – 1865

A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861 - 1865 In personal as well as historical terms, more even than the war for independence, the Civil War has been the defining experience of the American democracy. This title...

Death Destruction and a Packet of Peanuts: A Rollicking Pub Crawl Through Four Years of the English Civil War

Death Destruction and a Packet of Peanuts: A Rollicking Pub Crawl Through Four Years of the English Civil War Chris Pascoe is fascinated by the English Civil War. He also likes beer. So when the thought came to him to set out on a pub crawl around the sites of the English ...

The English Civil War

The English Civil War The Civil Wars provides a critical new synthesis of current research on the political crisis that engulfed all three Stuart kingdoms in the mid-Seventeenth century. Drawing on new archival findings and challenging current orthodoxies on a...

Don Troiani’s Civil War Zouaves Chasseurs Special Branches and Officers

Don Troiani's Civil War Zouaves Chasseurs Special Branches and Officers Perhaps the most famous uniforms of the Civil War belonged to the Zouaves troops of French derivation whose vibrant attire was accented by fezzes and baggy trousers. This volume depicts them in all their colourful glory and covers the uniforms of engineers surgeons marines and generals.

The Lost History of 1914

The Lost History of 1914 Anticipating the centenary of World War I, a brilliant new history of the year it began--a year forever memorable (Woodrow Wilson)--that examines the war and its causes through new eyes. In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty examines the...